On May 22, 2006, the ACLU of Illinois, on behalf of journalist Studs Terkel and members of the local legal, medical, political, and religious communities, filed a class action suit against AT&T for sharing customers' phone records and the contents of their communications with the NSA. This case was consolidated as part of the other cases in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California. The ACLU filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documents relating to the Pentagon's program of spying on peace groups.

This confirmed target is an organization whose names has appeared in Pentagon Threat and Local Observation Notices (TALON) documents.

• Veterans for Peace